[Coco] NitrOS-9 instant boot CoCo

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:56 PM 8/5/2007, you wrote:

>  The "problem" with booting from a ROM as Roger asks rather than a 
> hard drive, is that you are locked into at least a specific kernel. 
> That means cobbler and os9gen have lost some of their usefulness. 
> It is important to be able to make changes to the core 
> OS-9/NitrOS-9 modules at will as needed without needing to burn a new EPROM.
>  Using a CF card more easily reloaded with new code should be just 
> as good as booting from hard drive directly.
>
>  At the moment the size of a typical NitrOS-9 OS9Boot file plus 
> kernel is about 12.5K. It would certainly fit into a ROM. However, 
> if you plan to include the CMDS directory as well, forget it!
>  It is not enough to load just the OS9Boot file to run OS-9. You 
> also need all of the commands and software. Where would they be 
> without some type of drive system unless you use a very large CF card?


My 42-meg CoCo HD was never close to filling up and it has 
everything.  Wouldn't an 8mb or 16mb CF card be ideal?




-- 
Roger Taylor